Energy Transitions in the Pipeline

Are industrial heat and energy intermittency unsolvable without fossil fuels?

Steve Genco
18 min readMar 15, 2024

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A rusting oil rig in a field. In the background, lots of energy-generating windmills. Represents the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
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Over a year ago, I learned that phasing out fossil fuels in many economic sectors was going to be a bigger challenge than I had appreciated before. In my post “Can renewable energy power a civilization built on fossil fuels?” I highlighted six areas where decarbonization was

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Steve Genco

Steve is author of Intuitive Marketing (2019) & Neuromarketing for Dummies (2013). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.